Dangerous Dreams : Essays on American Film and Television.
Title:
Dangerous Dreams : Essays on American Film and Television.
Author:
Whitt, Jan.
ISBN:
9781453910467
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (275 pages)
Series:
Framing Film ; v.13
Framing Film
Contents:
Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section One - The Influence of Literature on Film and Television -- Chapter One - Shutter Island: Martin Scorsese's Allegory of Despair -- Chapter Two - When Fiction Becomes Reality: Authorial Voice in The Door in the Floor, Secret Window, and Swimming Pool -- Chapter Three - The "Very Simplicity of the Thing": Edgar Allan Poe, Jessica B. Fletcher, and Murder, She Wrote -- Chapter Four - Changing Faces: Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Films of the 1980s -- Chapter Five - Displaced People and the Frailty of Words: Communication in Ordinary People, On Golden Pond, and Terms of Endearment -- Section Two - Portrayals of Class, Race, and Sexual Orientation -- Chapter Six - Working Man Blues: Images of the Cowboy in American Film -- Chapter Seven - From the Wilderness into the Closet: Brokeback Mountain and the Lost American Dream -- Chapter Eight - What Happened to Celie and Idgie?: "Apparitional Lesbians" in American Film -- Chapter Nine - Litigating the Past: Portrayals of the Japanese in American Film -- Section Three - Portrayals of Class, Race, and Ethnicity -- Chapter Ten - Fatherhood, Fidelity, and Friendship: Owen Thoreau Jr. and Men of a Certain Age -- Chapter Eleven - Frank's Place: Coming Home to a Place We'd Never Been Before -- Chapter Twelve - "American Life Is Rich in Lunacy": The Unsettling Social Commentary of The Beverly Hillbillies -- Chapter Thirteen - Grits and Yokels Aplenty: Depictions of Southerners on Prime-Time Television -- Section Four - Portrayals of Women in Film and Television -- Chapter Fourteen - From Great Expectations to The Bachelor: The Jilted Woman in Literature and Popular Culture -- Chapter Fifteen - The Lady Is (Still) a Tramp: Prime-Time Portrayals of Women Who Love Sex.
Chapter Sixteen - "This Moment of June": Laura Brown, Clarissa Vaughn, Virginia Woolf, and The Hours.
Abstract:
In the documentary Celluloid Closet (1995), actress Susan Sarandon said films are important - and they're dangerous - because we're the keepers of the dreams. The visual media hold a powerful sway, influencing attitudes on class, gender, race, and ethnicity, politics, religion, and sexual orientation. Dangerous Dreams: Essays on American Film and Television employs aesthetic, feminist, historical, Marxist, psychoanalytic, semiological, and sociological criticism to explore five decades of film and television texts that have captivated audiences. From Ordinary People (1980) to Shutter Island (2011) and from The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-1971) to Sex and the City (1998-2004), the study is divided into four sections, each comprised of several essays that explore the effects of narrative and visual texts. Sections include The Role of Literature in Film and Television, Portrayals of Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation in Film; Portrayals of Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Film and Television; and Gender Images in Film and Television. The 16 single-authored essays that comprise Dangerous Dreams celebrate the interconnectivity of film, literature, and television and do not suggest the primacy or superiority of any of these texts, which have in common both a creative process and an immeasurable cultural impact.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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